Gifford, IL Elevation & Topographic Map
Elevation
810 ft 250 m800 ft 245 m800 ft 245 m790 ft 240 m780 ft 235 m770 ft 235 m
Contours every 40 ft, bold every 200 ft
USGS 3DEP · U.S. Census Bureau
How to use this mapviews, tools and data
- Elevation
- Ground colored by height from green (lowest) to white (highest), with contour lines every 40–500 ft (USGS data).
- Satellite
- A 2016 satellite photo at 33 ft (10 m) detail; contours off.
- 3D
- Tilt and turn the terrain; hills are raised 1.5×, or set ×1 for true height.
- Click or tap anywhere
- The exact elevation of that spot in ft and m.
- Measure
- Pick two points for the climb, descent and grade along a straight line.
- Village area
- Fades everything outside the official village limits (US Census).
Elevation Data
Gifford sits at about 790 ft (240 m) above sea level, worked out from 2020 Census block heights on USGS 3DEP, weighted by residents.
Typical elevation
790 ft 240 m
most residents: 780–800 ft
Lowest
770 ft 235 m
on the north side
Highest
810 ft 250 m
on the west side
Average
790 ft 240 m
all land inside village limits
Gifford spans about 40 ft of height, so no single spot tells the whole story. The ruler shows where its people live, and where the other numbers you'll see come from.
| Figure | Elevation |
|---|---|
| Typical Where people live: half of residents higher, half lower | 790 ft240 m |
| Highest point Inside village limits, on the west side | 810 ft250 m |
| Lowest point Inside village limits, on the north side | 770 ft235 m |
| Town center USGS map point for Gifford | 800 ft245 m |
| Airport (TIP) FAA airport elevation, the highest point of its runways, 6.2 mi west of the village limits | 738 ft225 m |
| Average of all land | 790 ft240 m |
Topographic Map
- Location
- Village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States
- Population
- 906 2024 est.
- Land area
- 0.5 sq mi
- Density
- 2,013 per sq mi
- Coordinates
- 40.3059° N, 88.0211° W
- Time zone
- Central UTC−6 / −5
- Landform region
- Central Lowland
- Drains to
- Middle Fork Vermilion River → Vermilion River → Wabash River → Ohio River → Mississippi River → Gulf of America
- Airport
- Rantoul Ntl Avn Cntr-Frank Elliott Field (TIP) 738 ft
- ZIP codes 1
- 61847
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Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, USGS, FAA
Nearby Places
Nearby towns by typical elevation
- Gifford790 ft
- Compromise Township780 ft
- Ludlow770 ft
- Harwood Township770 ft
- Ludlow Township740 ft
- Rantoul740 ft
- Rantoul Township730 ft
- Kerr Township720 ft
- Penfield710 ft
- Royal680 ft
- Stanton Township680 ft
Rankings by typical elevation
- Towns in Illinois316th highest of 2,872
- Towns in Champaign Countyhighest of 55
Peaks and hills nearest, by height
- Blue Mound, Champaign County710 ft
How we measure
- Typical elevation: the population-weighted median: every 2020 Census block inside the village limits, at its USGS 3DEP height, weighted by the people who live there. Half of residents live higher, half lower.
- Lowest, highest, average: USGS 3DEP bare-earth heights on a 1 arc-second (≈100 ft, 30 m) grid, land only, inside the Census village limits (TIGER, Jan 1 2026).
- Nearby Places: nearby towns and rankings use each town's typical elevation, so every town is compared like for like. Rankings count every city, town, township and census-designated place, including places inside a town. Peaks and hills: the nearest summits with at least 980 ft (300 m) of prominence within 62 mi (100 km), then federal (GNIS) summits within 16 mi (25 km) when there are fewer than 5; each is the 3DEP top on a ~7 ft (2 m) window, or the NGS published height when a usable survey mark sits within 160 ft (50 m) of it (shown as published).
- Rounding: computed heights are rounded to 10 ft (5 m), or to 1 ft (1 m) under 100 ft; 3DEP is good to about a meter, not a foot. Published figures (FAA airport elevation, NGS survey heights) are shown as their publisher gives them.
- Datum: North American Vertical Datum of 1988 (NAVD 88). NGS plans to replace NAVD 88 with a new datum (NAPGD2022); heights will then shift slightly.
- Sources: USGS 3DEP, GNIS, Watershed Boundary Dataset and physiographic provinces; U.S. Census Bureau (boundaries, 2020 blocks, 2024 population estimates, Gazetteer areas, ZIP code areas); FAA airport data; BTS time zones. All public domain.